Daniel Coyle

Let's figure it out.

You're in charge of food.

I'm in charge of rescue, whatever.

That is what constraints let approach.

It's exactly the same principle brought to sports, which is if I want you to hit a ball higher than you are,

Telling you how to move your body is not useful.

Creating an obstacle in front of you, like a screen and saying, hit the ball over that screen.

Don't hit it into the screen, hit it over the screen.

You will self-organize yourself to be able to do that better than I can ever teach you.

And so designing those kinds of spaces ends up being a really powerful tool.

learning technique and all those spaces are essentially the same space, which is like, how can I thoughtfully identify what this player needs?

And then how can I create a space where he, the player can on his own motivation and driven by himself can do that over and over again.

And I would say some of this is kind of,

context dependent, sports dependent.

You know, baseball is a sport where moving your body by yourself is a really big part of it.

Football is a sport on the other hand, where maybe you need to have a little more of a, of a repetition, do your job, different sort of a training technique.

But if we're talking about pure athleticism, this idea of like the constraint and self-organizing to get around it is,

if we reflect on our own life, I think most of us find, when did I learn the most?

When did my learning velocity go way up?

And it's not going to be when it was easy.